RE: Green room list

["Berry, Mark S" <berrym@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

No, they invite guys "guaranteed" to go in the top 20 picks or so. They
invited Casey Jacobsen last year, when no one was sure he was a first-round
pick. Sure enough, the Suns took him (at 22, I think).

There's no magic number cutoff-they just try to avoid embarrassing someone.
They don't want a repeat of the Rashard Lewis thing a few years ago when he
cried in the green room as he slid all the way to the second round.

 -----Original Message-----
From: 	Shawn Niles [mailto:shizzjr@hotmail.com] 
Sent:	Friday, June 20, 2003 8:54 AM
To:	Berry, Mark  S; celtics@igtc.com
Subject:	Re: Green room list

it sounds like they only invite the lottery picks. Only 12-15 players. So it

would make sense that guys like Gaines and Banks are not invited since they 
are not predicted to go in the lottery.


>From: "Berry, Mark  S" <berrym@BATTELLE.ORG>
>To: "'celtics@igtc.com'" <celtics@igtc.com>
>Subject: Green room list
>Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 15:40:25 -0400
>
>Chad Ford from Insider has the list of invites to the green room for draft
>night. There are a couple of surprises: Brian Cook and Zarko Cabarkapa. 
>They
>really could throw a wrench into things if they go much earlier than
>expected.
>
>The surprise snub? Luke Ridnour. Check out his agent's lame attempt at spin
>control. He's desperately trying to avoid the perception that Ridnour is
>sliding. But there's also no Reece Gaines. Or Dwyane Wade, although that
>must be a mistake on Ford's part.
>
>The other name notable by its absence? Marcus Banks. If he had a promise,
>you'd think he might be included in the green room festivities.
>
>Mark
>
>Want a pretty good sign of who will be in the lottery come draft night?
>Look no further than the NBA's exclusive "Green Room" invitation list. Each
>year the NBA selects 12 to 15 players to travel to the draft and sit in a
>special player's only room. When a player's name is called on draft night,
>he gets to stroll to the podium, put on his new team's hat and shake David
>Stern's hand.
>The invitation list is complied from a poll of NBA GMs on who they think
>will be drafted in the lottery. It's usually a great barometer of who will
>likely be selected in or around the lottery.
>Each year there are a few surprising admissions and a snub or two.
>This year the big surprises are invites to Illinois' Brian Cook
><http://sports.espn.go.com/nbadraft/d03/tracker/player?playerId=18450>  and
>Serbian forward Zarko Cabarkapa
><http://sports.espn.go.com/nbadraft/d03/tracker/player?playerId=18463> .
>Four other international players -- Darko Milicic
><http://sports.espn.go.com/nbadraft/d03/tracker/player?playerId=18423> ,
>Maciej Lampe
><http://sports.espn.go.com/nbadraft/d03/tracker/player?playerId=18461> ,
>Mickael Pietrus
><http://sports.espn.go.com/nbadraft/d03/tracker/player?playerId=18464>  and
>Pavel Podkolzine
><http://sports.espn.go.com/nbadraft/d03/tracker/player?playerId=18544>  --
>were also invited to the room.
>All of the other usual suspects will be invited: LeBron James
><http://sports.espn.go.com/nbadraft/d03/tracker/player?playerId=18425> ,
>Carmelo Anthony
><http://sports.espn.go.com/nbadraft/d03/tracker/player?playerId=18433> ,
>Chris Bosh
><http://sports.espn.go.com/nbadraft/d03/tracker/player?playerId=18511> ,
>T.J. Ford
><http://sports.espn.go.com/nbadraft/d03/tracker/player?playerId=18444> ,
>Chris Kaman
><http://sports.espn.go.com/nbadraft/d03/tracker/player?playerId=18447> ,
>Kirk Hinrich
><http://sports.espn.go.com/nbadraft/d03/tracker/player?playerId=18442> ,
>Mike Sweetney and Nick Collison
><http://sports.espn.go.com/nbadraft/d03/tracker/player?playerId=18443> .
>Cook, who many felt could slip out of the first round, has been playing to
>rave reviews at workouts. Several NBA sources now claim he could go 
>anywhere
>from 10 to 19 in the draft. Cabarkapa is rumored to have a promise by the
>Suns at No. 17. But one league source told Insider he could end up going
>even higher.
>One surprising omission was Oregon's Luke Ridnour
><http://sports.espn.go.com/nbadraft/d03/tracker/player?playerId=18434> .
>However, Ridnour's agent, Lon Babby, told Insider he asked the NBA not to
>put Ridnour on the list. Ridnour had a pulled muscle and missed several
>workouts. Babby felt Ridnour needed to spend every day, including draft 
>day,
>working out.

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